My brother and I are children of a Salvadoran immigrant whose Temporary Protected Status will end in 2019. I have a 4.17 GPA, and if my mother has to leave, my dream of being the first generation of my family to attend college will be harder to fulfill. I’d have to work to fund schooling for myself and my brother. My single mother provides everything for us. She’s set a life here with a stable job, credit, health care and a home. She hasn’t committed any crimes or done harm to anyone. Her having to leave San Jose and return to a country full of poverty and gang violence after 17 years will be heartbreaking. This is a problem most of the 200,000 TPS recipients from El Salvador might be facing. Families will be devastated and I hope Rep. Zoe Lofgren and Sens. Kamala Harris and Dianne Feinstein can act on it.

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